The Hope pioneer., 1887-08-12
SPIRIT OF THE NEWS.

Gen Frank Wolford, of Kentucky,
announces his intention of running for
congress next year.
Rear Admiral Franklin will be retired
next month. He will be succeeded by
Commodore Gherardi.
Rose Terry Cooke is to remove to
Pittsfeld, Mass, where her husband is
to engage in banking.
Ward Lamon, President Lincoln's
Marshal of the District of Columbia, is
at Coney Island, N. Y.
Idlewild, the beautiful home of the
late N. P. Willis, at Cornwall, on the
Hudson, is advertised for sale.
To give the Crown Prince of Austria
the full royal outfit of the Order of the
Garter costs England $4,000.
Judge Zimmerer of Munich has been
appointed Governor of CAMERON in
place of Gov. Soden, who is ill.
Gov, Foraker and Tom Powell, his
Democratic competitor, were college
classmates and are warm personal
friends.
T. P. O'Connor, M. P, will be the
editor of the half-penny Gladstonian
paper which will appear In London in
a few weeks.
The French steamer La Verite while
loading petroleum at Mogand or, Moroc-
co, was destroyed by fire. Six persons
lost their lives.
The Rev. DR.. A. G. Hirsch, of Gin
cinnati has accepted the Presidency of
the University of the Pacific at an an
nual salary of $4,000. ss''=
At the annual meeting of the flax so
cieties in Belfast it was announced
that trade was now in the most favor
able condition since 1881.
Quong Tart, Chinaman of Sydney,
Australia, who married q white
women about u year ago, is now a
proud father. The little girl will grow
up as Victoria Jubilee Tart.
Col. Fred Grant is said to have been
offered the Republican nomination for
Secretary of State in New York, and
it is believed he will accept.
Gov. Larrabee of Iowa appears to
have walkover for denomination.
The Republican papers support him
with unanimity that is as unusual as
it must be gratifying to the Governor.
Oscar Wilde is editing ladies' mag
azine in London, He does up his long
hair in very neat knot and wears q
hustle under his coat-tails. He wears a
light blue corset and red necktie, and
is, in fact, just a little bit sweeter than
ever.
W. P. Blake, Professor of Geology at
Harvard College, who has been explor-
ing the wonders of California, declares
the great Yosemite VALLEY is simply the
bed OF an immense glacier, and that ice
action only ceased quite recently in
California.
Ira D. Sankey has given the land on
which the new building of the First
Methodist Church at New Castle, Pa,
will stand. Mr.. Sankey attended the
church in his younger DAYS and was
superintendent Of its Sunday-school for
several years.
Denman Thompson, according to a
Long Branch letter in the Philadelphia
Press, is an inveterate gambler, who has
lost at faro everything .sJosh Whit
comb brought him, and who has little
left of the large sum he made last sea-
son in the "Old Homestead
Sergt. Mason, who gained notorietv
for having shot at Guiteau during his
trial for the murder of President Gar
field, has become a prosperous and very
quiet farmer in Orange County, Vir-
ginia. He and Betty and several babies
are reported to be perfectly comfortable
in all respects.
A child was recently watching
young lady in Holliston busily talking
into a telephone transmitter. Suddenly
the child said, "Who are you talking
to?" The lady answered, clam talking
to man." The child replied, sWell,
ne must be an awful little man to live
in such a small house as that.''
The late Girard B. Allen, the St.
Louis millionaire and philanthropist,
carefully husbanded his physical
strength in old age. He would ride
rather than walk if he had only two or
three blocks to 60. Il consider" he
said, sat my age that every step take
wears out the machine just that much"
The Queen of Portugal is an accom-
pllshed potter. While staying at the
seaside last year she constantly visited
an important factory close by, and was
SO interested that she took lessons in the
whole process of manufacture Now
Queen Maria Pia has become first rate
workwoman, and turns out most artis-
tic vases, bowls, cups, etc.
Charles Rau, one of the curators
OF the Smithsonian Institution
who recently died in Washing
ton, was curious character. He had
no relatives in this country and leaves
his fortune to nephew living in Ger
many. For fifty years he led the life of
a miser. He slept and cooked in one
room in the Smithsonian building.
The Car recently sounded the Ameer
OF Bokhara as to whether his subjects
were Moslems, and would rebel if he
assisted Russia. A proclamation of the
Gar has been posted on the gates of
Samarcand promising that Russia will
not interfere with the Turkomans and
Usebeks provided Russian troops are
allowed free passage through the
country.
The bourgeois are, as a rule, delighted
with the fracture of the metropolitan
railway scheme in Paris. They only
saw it in the destruction of their beauti-
full Paris and its reduction to the
straight converging line of New York.
Ihey would much perfer to have the